OST files and archiving their contents owing to Size Cap on an Exchange server

[cprelude]

Hi...My client is looking to renting a box on an Exchange Server, but
the rental comes at a price and there is a size cap on the mailbox he
would be acquiring.

For that reason, I am wondering if it would be possible for him to
autoarchive the contents of his ost file on the local PC, in to an
Archive PST files (created locally and existing locally but not
synchronised to the Exchange server), in order to stay within the size
cap limit on the Exchange Server?

He would be prepared to accept that any of the autoarchived content
would then cease to be synchronised with the Exchange box but he could
live with that as he is mainly interested in keeping synchronised his
most current emails and calendar items.

Please can someone let me know if autoarchiving is possible to set up
on, say, the "INBOX" or the "CALENDAR" of an OST file?

 

[F.H. Muffman]

Hi...My client is looking to renting a box on an Exchange Server, but
the rental comes at a price and there is a size cap on the mailbox he
would be acquiring.

For that reason, I am wondering if it would be possible for him to
autoarchive the contents of his ost file on the local PC, in to an
Archive PST files (created locally and existing locally but not
synchronised to the Exchange server), in order to stay within the size
cap limit on the Exchange Server?

He would be prepared to accept that any of the autoarchived content
would then cease to be synchronised with the Exchange box but he could
live with that as he is mainly interested in keeping synchronised his
most current emails and calendar items.

Please can someone let me know if autoarchiving is possible to set up
on, say, the "INBOX" or the "CALENDAR" of an OST file?

I'd recommend searching help for 'auto archive', but the answer is a
slightly qualified 'Yes' as the Exchange admin might put in a GPO where the
end user wouldn't be able to archive and/or create a PST file. I doubt they
would do it tho (and I'm not entirely sure that a GPO is applied to Exchange
when HTTP over RPC is being used).